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we will talk individual stocks, as well as the macro investing environment in just a minute. but, becky has your morning headlines. >> we do. in fact, president obama is going to be nominating current chief of staff jack lew to replace tim geithner as treasury secretary. lew served as omb director under president clinton, and then again under president obama he also worked as a managing director at citigroup. he's going to be taking the lead negotiations with lawmakers who are confronting america's debt crisis, and try to avert harsh spending cuts that are set to kick in on the first of march. but as we just heard we'll see if that actually happens or not. the president's going to be making the nomination official today at 1:30 p.m. we do have some breaking news just out from ford. >> doubling its dividends. stocks up a little bit. doesn't take much to go up 1% when you have $13 stock. but it was a 20 cent per year dividend. it's now going to be 40 cents per year. the yield was just under 1.5% so this will push it up to a 3% yield so ford doubling its dividend. payable on mar
we will talk individual stocks, as well as the macro investing environment in just a minute. but, becky has your morning headlines. >> we do. in fact, president obama is going to be nominating current chief of staff jack lew to replace tim geithner as treasury secretary. lew served as omb director under president clinton, and then again under president obama he also worked as a managing director at citigroup. he's going to be taking the lead negotiations with lawmakers who are confronting...
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in this regulatory environment that's not a good place to be. james foreman's move into retail and other sector so i think that's a meaningful shift for them. >> is the regulatory environment too tight? >> in some number of areas, yes. in some others, no. so i can actually say mixed answer. in a lot of dodd-frank has to do with things that had nothing to do with the financial crisis. you may remember one of the first laws actually implemented where they wrote the language was debit fees. they capped debit fees. that had nothing to do with anything around the financial crisis. on the other hand things like the volcker rule and others, they're still working on them, and i think there should be some good regulation around capital risk taking, and such, on the trading desks. that's still to come. >> the other big banking wall street news this week is jamie diamond and jpmorgan, i don't know if you follow this, but the london whale, the board, is going to be potentially releasing an internal report on what happened. if you were on the board would you
in this regulatory environment that's not a good place to be. james foreman's move into retail and other sector so i think that's a meaningful shift for them. >> is the regulatory environment too tight? >> in some number of areas, yes. in some others, no. so i can actually say mixed answer. in a lot of dodd-frank has to do with things that had nothing to do with the financial crisis. you may remember one of the first laws actually implemented where they wrote the language was debit...
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is slow and steady the right strategy for an uncertain political environment? that's our question. our "what's working" series continues with arrow investment chairman john rogers. the current chairman of president obama's advisory council on financial capability, and we are twliled to have you here this morning, john. >> great to be back. >> so what is working in this environment? or what do you think is going to be working in 2013? >> well, i think that the housing rate of stocks are going to continue to do very well. warren buffett's talked about the fact of how important the recovery in the housing market is for the overall economy. jobs get creative because of it. and i think that momentum is going to continue into 2013. >> okay so let's go through a couple names. names of companies that you really like. in the housing worlds. >> we've had a lot of success from carpet manufacturers like mohawk and inner face. we also own first american financial which is one of our best performers last year. and we're looking for any of the companies that have any ties to housing markets. we t
is slow and steady the right strategy for an uncertain political environment? that's our question. our "what's working" series continues with arrow investment chairman john rogers. the current chairman of president obama's advisory council on financial capability, and we are twliled to have you here this morning, john. >> great to be back. >> so what is working in this environment? or what do you think is going to be working in 2013? >> well, i think that the housing...
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, which is a good environment now for housing. and that if we get our economy moving, unemployment down, housing affordability is the best it's ever been. it can be an important ingredient for growth in the economy, if we just let it happen. >> despite all we're talking about here, and i agree with just about everything you just said, i think isn't the economy actually growing reasonably well right now? i mean if you look at industrial production. you look at what's going on in terms of the bank stocks even if you want to use bank stocks as reasonable proxy for expectations of the industry. things are doing okay. are they not? >> no. >> they're not? they're not? despite the fact -- >> i think 2% growth, given the opportunities we have is half of what it should be. >> that's not what my question was. my question wasn't what's the potential of the economy. my question is isn't it getting better? aren't we repairing the economy? you would say no to that? >> no, we are. but we should be. this is the fourth year after a recession. >> t
, which is a good environment now for housing. and that if we get our economy moving, unemployment down, housing affordability is the best it's ever been. it can be an important ingredient for growth in the economy, if we just let it happen. >> despite all we're talking about here, and i agree with just about everything you just said, i think isn't the economy actually growing reasonably well right now? i mean if you look at industrial production. you look at what's going on in terms of...